Quilt Market Recap Part 2

Alrighty, are you ready for more? (To see Part 1 go here.) I did my best to consolidate, but still give you a glimpse of all the pretty. Buckle up. Here we go… Riley Blake has added some new basics to their offerings including stripes (in many different widths) and ginghams. (There’s the official Gingham Style suit!)

The Freespirit/Westminster Fabrics booth is always full of pretty inspiration. (R-to-L): Joel Dewberry, Jenean Morrison, Denyse Schmidt’s new collection, Florence, which has lots of great colors and prints, and pretty stitchery by Anna Maria Horner.

(clockwise) Heather Bailey had an AMAZING giant bird embroidery on her wall and green turf as the floor. Her booth won an award. Tula Pink’s booth is always full of color, Oliver + S and the Straight Stitch Society (which I love!) and Pam Kitty Morning’s cute new collection.

The Kokka booth. I always love to check out this one. Cute, kitschy Hello Kitty prints, new collections by Melody Miller and Ellen Luckett Baker. Love those tulips!

Robert Kaufman had some fun new stuff including these saturated tones from new designer, Jennifer Sampou. Not my typical style, but I loved how the batik-y looking stripes looked used in the quilt and dress. A simple way to add design elements letting the fabric do all the work. Also the new cutesy Hello Tokyo collection was darling.

Speaking of Robert Kaufman, they had a great collection of new apparel weight fabrics including denims, chambrays, swiss dots, etc. Some great things! There is one of my cute roomies, Andrea, who sewed a lot of the samples for RK. Other cool apparel news included a range of colored denim by Indygo Junction. The weight was SO nice and felt so soft. They’d had some cool sample garments and a nice Union Jack Pillow. Riley Blake is offering a selection of knits now too.

Some amazing designers and their booths: (clockwise) Jen Kingwell from Austrailia. Holy Moly. Amazing quilts. The picture of the full booth does not do them justice. You can see in the close up shot that there is so much amazing detail. Emily Cier of Carolina Patchwork. It was so neat to see her work up close as well. I love her use of color and placement. Just beautiful. And Debbie of Esch House Quilts had her first booth. I love her minimalism. Beautiful work there too.One of my very favorite booths of Market belonged to Jodie of Ric-Rac. Ric-Rac was one of the first sewing blogs I ever read. When it clicked that she was standing there live and in person, I about flipped. And then to see her cute goodies, live and in person, including the dress made entirely of selvage strips, I about flipped again! Also the fact that Jodie was hysterically funny to talk to.

And just to round things off (in case you’ve been waiting) coming soon to fabric collections near you: One Direction and Bobba Fett! And finally, at one point we were just mozying along, looking at booths when I looked up at a hanging quilt and suddenly thought, “Hey. That quilt looks like one I made. Wait! I did make that quilt!” There was my Blooma quilt that’s in the current edition of McCall’s Quilting magazine. I hadn’t seen it since I sent it to Blend Fabrics last September. It was nice to be reunited, briefly.

And there you have it. My report of Spring Quilt Market 2013. You made it through the end.

Since I was feeling sad that we couldn’t all be there hanging out together, I brought back a few treasures and decided to give them away. I divided them into two piles so that I could spread the joy. If you want a pile of Quilt Market Loot, just leave a comment. I’ll randomly pick two winners on Thursday. GIVEAWAY CLOSED.

It&#39;s like you went to quilters/fabric heaven. I don&#39;t know if I&#39;d ever want to come back. There&#39;s soo much eye candy to take in, how do you come down from such a high? Thanks so much for letting us all take a peek and for the generous giveaway! ;-&gt; Toni Anne

Not too long a post at all – it&#39;s really great to see and hear all about the talented artists that attend. Now I have to go learn more about these folks. I&#39;d love some goodies! I&#39;m waiting for my Chapters (the Canada version of Barnes and Noble) to get the Modern Baby quilt book – fingers crossed I win it, or that Chapters gets it soon!

What a lovely set of pictures…Made it seem a little bit like we were there. Everybody&#39;s booth are so bright and cheery. Can&#39;t wait until I can go to a quilt show like this. Thank you for sharing.

What fun loot you have to give away. Love all of the photos.. I was there helping out a friend in her booth (we were the crazy girls giving out the Quilting Hottie buttons that she generally passes out at her trunk shows and lectures) and even though I snuck away to walk around twice, I still missed a lot of what you have pics of. Thanks for sharing! I love Jodie, too!! And was stunned to see

What a great time Quilt Market looks like. I wish I could get there – definitely adding this to my bucket list. <br />Can&#39;t believe you met Jodie – she is one of my favourite people!! I love her patterns and her sense of humour.

Those fabrics are mouthwatering! LOL! Thank you so much for showing us all this goodness!!!<br />And a fabulous give-away to boot? You&#39;re too good!<br />Esther<br />ipatchandquilt dot wordpress dot com<br />esthersipatchandquilt at yahoo dot com<br /><br />

Did you ever feel like collapsing into the fetal position and sucking your thumb while looking at all that amazing quilty and fabric goodness?! Oh my gosh. I can&#39;t imagine seeing everything in person. Thanks for sharing the pictures!

What a wonderful experience. I only wish, sigh………..maybe someday. Thanks for sharing and the wonderful (hoping) chance to win. Pick me, pick me. (-: Once again, put your feet up for a little bit Amy and thanks again.

Have been visiting my son and his family in Portland for the last 10 days and soooo wanted to go to market! Seeing all the great pictures makes me want to sneak in next year in someone&#39;s handy dandy tote bag!! (A very large one!) Thanks so very much for sharing your experience with us!!

Awesome! Wow there was some amazing stuff there – okay, I won&#39;t whine because we mere mortals weren&#39;t allowed into this quilty paradise. 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing the pictures and for your giveaway goodies. <br /> – sunshdws at yahoo dot com

It is hard not to want every single print in Florence! I feel that way about each new collection as it comes out!<br /><br />I just picked up the baby quilt book on Amazon. It came Friday and I love it!

Oh my gosh, AMAZING photos! Thank you so much for sharing them. So envious that you were there to take it all in personally, but thankful that you are letting the rest of us live vicariously thru you. Can hardly wait until all of these great lines begin hitting my LQS.

Thanks so much for sharing your Quilt Market photos. I&#39;ve been watching the lectures on Craftsy. It would be a blast to attend. Especially LOVE the &quot;Hello Tokyo&quot; fabric. The booth represented the fabric in such a eye catching way. <br /><br />Congratulations on being reunited with your quilt! What a wonderful surprise. 🙂

Thank you so much for taking the time to take pictures and tell us about the Quilt market!!! I have truly enjoyed it and wished I could be a part of this fun time! And to share your giveaway and is wonderful and thanks!<br /><br />JKL052095(at)aol (dot) com

One of my highlights of quilt market was meeting you!! That was thrilling to me, and you are so sweet, and didn&#39;t think I was crazy, which was so nice! Your posts on all the booths and new fabric are wonderful. My phone pictures are a mess and not in focus, so I like looking at your blog posts instead!

Thank you for all these pictures! It sparked my imagination and creativity! Maybe one day I&#39;ll make a Jen kingwell quilt, it looked so lovely! And I loved your quilt- off to the store to see if they have a copy!

Thanks for all the great pictures from quilt market! Its nice to be able to see all of the great new fabrics and creations when you cant be there in person. Everything looked so bright and beautiful I bet you had a blast. <br />Thanks for the chance to win a bundle of some great loot as well.

I&#39;m wanting to learn to make a quilt. My first adventure is to make a twin quilt(simple pattern) for my 2 daughter&#39;s. ok, in reality, it may be something smaller.LOL! I came across your blog and I&#39;m aw inspired by the looks of ALL the beautiful quilts &amp; other items u were able to see in person. I just got back(last weekend) from an applique/embroidery conference and was inspired

I can&#39;t imagine how fun it would be to see all the great new stuff coming out at Market…and meeting all the amazing people there! Sounds like so much fun!<br /><br />Thanks for a chance to win some goodies!!!<br /><br />Sabrina S

Thanks for sharing quilt market with us….would love to be able to attend something like this in the future but don&#39;t know of any shows like this in our area!<br /><br />Thanks for a chance to win your fun giveaway!!<br />Julie<br />

It looks so amazing all the pictures of market, I can&#39;t even imagine being there in person. It&#39;s on my bucket list, hehe. Thanks for sharing your photos and info with us. So many pretties and can&#39;t wait for all the new pretties to come.<br /><br />Thank you for a super giveaway and a chance to win.<br /><br />usairdoll(at)gmail(dot)com

Thanks for the great Market coverage. I really enjoyed all the pictures and was able to see some of the booths that didn&#39;t get much coverage elsewhere. Can you handle Jen Kingwell? Her stuff is wowing me.

Wow, so much to see and take in. I don&#39;t blame you at all for feeling slightly overwhelmed at having to do a recap of it all. It looks like it was great. Hopefully someday I&#39;ll make it there. Glad you had a good time. Thanks for the chance to win!

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